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Gagnut

Posted: Wed Sep 27, 2006 2:43 pm

Joined: 14 Mar 2006 Posts: 846 Location: Ames, Iowa

How does Decipher choose cards for its sets?

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Anonymous Prodigy

Posted: Sat Sep 30, 2006 2:49 pm

Joined: 10 Jan 2006 Posts: 4197 Location: United States

This topic has been moved to the Members’ Lounge.

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bobtheorc

Posted: Sat Sep 30, 2006 9:51 pm

Joined: 19 Mar 2006 Posts: 1218 Location: Wow, its hot in Iowa

Gagnut wrote:

How does Decipher choose cards for its sets?

Do you mean how does D choose how many cards per culture?

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Gagnut

Posted: Sat Sep 30, 2006 10:34 pm

Joined: 14 Mar 2006 Posts: 846 Location: Ames, Iowa

Like card text, Name...stuff like that.

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sickofpalantirs

Posted: Sun Oct 01, 2006 7:14 am

Joined: 23 Mar 2006 Posts: 7750 Location: somwhere, over the rainbow way up high. There's a land that I heard of once in a lullaby.

they have designers and playtesters...

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CarpeGuitarrem

Posted: Sun Oct 01, 2006 1:14 pm

Joined: 07 Apr 2006 Posts: 3361 Location: Franciscan University of Steubenville

I imagine they do something like what we’re doing with Allies of the North, and then go onto playtesting with mock-up cards (basically, pieces of paper with stats and gametext written on them). If cards work, then they get printed in the set.

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Merrick_Hale

Posted: Sun Oct 01, 2006 2:20 pm

Joined: 13 Apr 2006 Posts: 445 Location: Austin, Texas

sickofpalantirs wrote:

they have designers and playtesters...

Correction, they had designers (but the last one is now working for UDE on their WoW TCG). From what I understand, what CG says is correct except that there is an additional process of having to go through approvals on images and titles of the cards with New Line since they own the rights to the images. Sometimes card titles are changed at the last minute as can be seen in this article. Decipher wound up changing the names of most of the dwarves in the set. Uri and Sindri used to be named Thror and Dain I (If I remember correctly).

Another article that you might consider on how cards get designed is this one on the overall design of Elessar’s Edict.

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sickofpalantirs

Posted: Sun Oct 01, 2006 2:35 pm

Joined: 23 Mar 2006 Posts: 7750 Location: somwhere, over the rainbow way up high. There's a land that I heard of once in a lullaby.

thanks i will look at those

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Gagnut

Posted: Sun Oct 01, 2006 3:53 pm

Joined: 14 Mar 2006 Posts: 846 Location: Ames, Iowa

So how do they make cards if they lost their designers?

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